U of Chicago Prof. Michael Dawson discusses presidential candidate Barack Obama , June ‘07
From Wisconsin Public Radio June 7, 2007. Scroll down for audio link. (Launches your media player.)
Here’s the phrase that pays:
“[Obama] is somewhat to the right…of the mainstream of the black community…not just on race, but also of economic redistribution which is the other key issue that most of African Americans embrace.”
Also of interest:
“He certainly was around the University of Chicago for long enough to have had contact with William Julius Wilson who’s now at Harvard. I think he’s convinced on pragmatic grounds that the best way to help the disadvantaged in society…is to frame it as broadly as possible as an issue of poverty.”